[OctDev] my virusscanner found a Worm in octave.exe

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Danny Schneider
<Danny_Schneider_Hessen at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right channel for this information, but
> perhaps somebody of you can direct it the right way...
>
> My virus scanner just reported that octave.exe contains a Virus/Worm
> named Zhelatin.aan.13
>
> it was found in octave-3.0.0.exe and octave.exe
>
> I downloaded it from sourceforge.
>
> Can anybody confirm the disease?

Apparently, this problem appeared recently as this problem has
been reported a few time since the beginning of this week. My
virsu scanner does not detect any problem, so I would like to request
some feedback from other Windows users

1) Is this worm new?

2) What AV software detect it?

3) Could anyone with McAfee or Norton check the executables
(the latest VS2008 executable was built on a regularly updated
McAfee-protected system)

4) Could people who detected the worm check older executables?
(like the 2.9.x series)

Thanks,
Michael.